Bought a (cheap) Widescreen laptop...

TheOldFellow wrote:
> never had one of these before. How in (expletive deleted) do you get
> things like jpegs to display with the right aspect ratio in, say, Gimp?
>> The whole screen is distorted.
It sounds to me like your X server is misconfigured. You might want
to verify you got the correct resolution in xorg.conf.
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